Quotes About Participation

'Go vote' is a not a political strategy. It's hardly a slogan. Hell, it's not even a good tweet.

I don't want awkward shows with people looking at their phones or tweeting. That's something you should do at home.

With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages.

I spend all day replying to tweets and reblogging posts and sharing fan art. I think it's the most important thing I can possibly do, to stay involved in the community as a part of the community, not ahead of the community. I'm very much the same level of them in it.

Massive shift from presentation to participation...people want to be part of to be part of the conversation

I feel more important to just encourage people to get involved, one way or another. If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.

Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.

The listener has a responsibility that not everyone wants to take, especially if you are putting on the new Top 40 record.

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

I think we need to be a bit more proactive. Let's not just talk about availability of sports, let's make the facilities more accessible to kids and make them want to come along.

Yogi Berra put it best, "If people don't want to come, we can't stop them."

People want the government to go back to the people.

People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.

Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.

Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

It seems self-evident that we should want people to be free, to be able to play an active part in making decisions about matters of concern to them, to the largest possible extent.

When you're growing up, you want to feel part of something.

I think people should be encouraged that there are so many people in the press that want to participate.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

George Lucas should have distributed the 'source code' to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.